For the Igbo people, ancestor figurines are among the most important objects of cult, enabling to communicate with the dead. Symbols of justice and truth, these ritual objects are used in prayers and can induce benedictions or curses. Object of power, each head of the family could own several of them. Symbols of family or community authority, they became worshipped family objects; wood, iron, traces of kaolin.

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Height: 48 cm
Weight: 1,7 kg